This document provides instructions and examples for filling out a storyboard. It explains that each shot should include the scene and shot number, duration, camera shot/angle, action, sound, and edit to the next shot. Two sample storyboards are then provided. The first storyboard includes 7 scenes and the second includes 8 scenes. Each scene contains the instructed details for individual shots including changes in camera perspective, subject focus, sounds, and transitions between shots like cuts, dissolves and fades.

1. TITLE:
1
How to fill the boxes in your storyboard:
First fill the text (type it on the Word document) Once you have the text complete, delete the instructions below and
print it, in order to draw the images.
Duration: How long will this shot last? Depending on the action, a shot conventionally can last from minutes to
seconds. However, if you are working on a promotional trailer or advert, your shot will conventionally last between 1
to 5 seconds.
Camera shot: You need to describe the camera shot and angle that you are using. These can be:
 Close up
 Mid shot
 Long shot
 Wide shot
Camera angle:
 Low angle shot
 High angle shot
 Eye level shot
Action: Write a brief description of what is happening in the shot.
Sound: You need to describe the sound that we will hear in this shot. Sound can be:
 Diegetic (location ambient sound, actors talking (dialogues).
 Non-Diegetic (score music, voice over, sound effects)
Edit to next shot:
 Cut: Straight transition into the next shot. This transition implies narrative continuity.
 Dissolve: Fades into the next shot. This transition connotes an ellipsis*.
 Fade: Fades into black/white. This transition implies the end of a sequence or narrative timeline.
 Wipe: Next shot comes into the screen and pushes the previous one out. This transition implies the end of a
sequence or narrative timeline. Widely used in comedies.
* Ellipsis – the removal or shortening of elements of a narrative to speed up the action. For example, an editor might
use ellipsis in a sequence about a young man taking a drink by cutting straight to him as an old man, drunk and alone.
The editor has missed out the story in the middle to speed up the action and show us how quick this man’s life has
passed.

2. TITLE:
2
Scene number: 1 Shot Number: 1 Duration: 5-10 Seconds
Camera shot/angle: Wide shot/High Angel
Action: The camera starts with showing the setting of
the garden pool with the artist singing into the mic
Sound: Non-Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: Cut
Scene number: 1 Shot Number: 2 Duration: 5-8 Seconds
Camera shot/angle: Close up shot/Eye level
Action: The camera will Go around the studio
highlighting the setting with the mic in the centre of
the room
Sound: Non-Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: Cut
Scene number: 1 Shot Number:3 Duration: 3-6 Seconds
Camera shot/angle: Mid Shot/Low Angle
Action: The Camera will show the artist and focus on
what he is wearing and him singing through the mic.
Sound: Non-Diegetic Soundtrack- Music

3. TITLE:
3
Edit to next shot: Cut
Scene number: 1 Shot Number: 4 Duration: 5-12 Seconds
Camera shot/angle: Long Shot- Close up/ Eye Level
Action: The camera will come off the artist and it will
focus on the tv in the corner where it will zoom into
the tv to show the next scene.
Sound: Non-Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: Zoom
Scene number: 2 Shot Number: 1 Duration: 3-5 Seconds
Camera shot/angle: Extreme close up
Action: The Camera will focus on the guitar and the
actor sadness while lying in bed after his breakup.
Sound: Non-Digenetic Soundtrack- music
Edit to next shot: cut
Scene number: 2 Shot Number:2 Duration: 5-8 seconds

4. TITLE:
4
Camera shot/angle: Mid Shot/high angle shot
Action: The camera will by angled towards downwards
towards the whole actor playing the guitar and this will
highlight his depression and emotions.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: cut
Scene number: 3. Shot Number: 1 Duration: 3-5 seconds
Camera shot/angle: Extreme close up
Action: The Camera will focus Actor 2 who is sitting at
the top of the slide, and the camera will focus on his
sadness.
Sound: Non-Digenetic Soundtrack- music
Edit to next shot: Zoom
Scene number: 3 Shot Number: 2 Duration: 5-8 seconds
Camera shot/angle: Mid shot/Eye level shot
Action: The camera will zoom into the actor 2’s hands
where he is holding a picture of his girlfriend who left
him.
Sound: Non-Digenetic Soundtrack- music
Edit to next shot: Cut

5. TITLE:
5
Scene number: 3 Shot Number: 3 Duration: 5-8 seconds
Camera shot/angle: Wide shot
Action: The camera will zoom out onto other actor who is
sitting on the slide with a picture of his girlfriend in
his hand
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: wipe
Scene number: 3 Shot Number: 4 Duration: 3-5 seconds
Camera shot/angle:close up
Action: The camera will zoom out onto other actor who is
sitting on the slide with a picture of his girlfriend in
his hand and he shows his anger/sadness by throwing the
pi The camera will zoom out onto other actor who is
sitting on the slide with a picture of his girlfriend in
his hand picture into the pool.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: Fade
Scene number: 4 Shot Number: 1 Duration: 5-8 seconds

6. TITLE:
6
Camera shot/angle: Mid shot/eye level shot
Action The camera will go back to actor 1 in the studio
who is singing into the mic and there will be some
cutbacks to his friend actor 2 who is heartbroken.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: cut
Scene number: 5 Shot Number: 1 Duration: 5-8 seconds
Camera shot/angle: Mid shot
Action: The camera will then focus on the guitar in the
bedroom and slowly move the camera towards actor 2 who
is heartbroken in bed next to his guitar.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: Cut
Scene number: 5 Shot Number: 2 Duration: 4-7 seconds

7. TITLE:
7
Camera shot/angle: Wide shot/ High angle shot
Action: The camera will then zoom out of the actor in
bed, and this will show his emotions with the camera
focusing then on the image on his bedside table of his
ex-girlfriend.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: cut
Scene number: 6 Shot Number: 1 Duration: 4-7 seconds
Camera shot/angle: Mid shot/Low angle shot
Action: The camera will then go back to the inside
studio with actor 1 singing into the mic.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: cut
Scene number: 6 Shot Number: 2 Duration: 4-7 seconds

8. TITLE:
8
Camera shot/angle: Wide shot
Action: Then the camera will be back outside in the
outside pool studio where actor 1 is singing into the
mic showing his emotions for his friend actor 2.
Sound: Non- Diegetic Soundtrack- Music
Edit to next shot: fade